Soft conquest: Turkish Red Crescent serving Erdogan's agenda

In this new episode of our series on the use of soft power by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to infiltrate societies, we will focus on the role the Turkish Red Crescent is playing in this regard.
Erdogan
uses the disasters that befall other countries in order to interfere in these
countries, using the Red Crescent.
The
Turkish Red Crescent is especially active in distressed states that are in
urgent need for support.
The
dubious role the Turkish Red Crescent is playing in Yemen is a case in point.
The Turkish agency carries out suspicious activities in a number of Yemeni
provinces. Some of these activities were carried out through local partners
with the aim of deflecting attention from Turkish involvement.
The
Red Crescent is using poverty and rampant conflicts in different parts of Yemen
in infiltrating the Arab state. It is especially active in the southern Yemeni
provinces as well as capital Sana'a.
The
war between Armenia and Azerbaijan is another case in point. The head of the
Turkish Red Crescent, Kerem
KINIK, said his organization would stand by the people of Azerbaijan in its
armed struggle to liberate its land.
The Turkish Red Crescent offers all
types of support to the people of Azerbaijan, including food, detergents,
kitchenware, tents, and blankets.
The organization is also involved in
the reconstruction of parts of Azerbaijan. It distributes heavy clothes to poor
families in different parts of Azerbaijan.
The Turkish Red Crescent has also been
offering support to people in northern Cyprus since 2018. It does this with the
aim of getting a share of the unfolding natural gas wealth in the Eastern
Mediterranean region.